Adolf Brüning (art historian)

Adolf Brüning (* 1867 in Münster ; † February 2, 1912 in Hanover ) was a German art historian .

Adolf Brüning was the son of the imperial bank clerk and later secret councilor Adolf Brüning and his wife Luise. He studied Classical Philology, Classical Archeology and German Studies . After the state examination and his doctorate, he taught for two years at grammar schools in Koblenz and Bonn and was then a year educator of the Prince of Ratibor. In 1894 he began working for the Berlin museums, first at the Antiquarium under Ernst Curtius , then at the Kunstgewerbemuseum under Julius Lessing , where he became assistant director in 1897. In 1905 he became director of the newly founded State Museum of the Province of Westphalia in Münster, whose new building he was able to inaugurate on March 17, 1908. The conception and furnishing of the museum go back to him. On September 1, 1910, he was elected director of the Hannover Provincial Museum . After a few months he wanted to give up his job for family reasons and return to Münster, but withdrew his request for dismissal. In 1912, when he presented the plans for the future development of the Provincial Museum to the Museum Commission in the Ständehaus, he suffered a stroke, of which he died at the age of 44.

Publications

• Door handles and fountain masks (= sample booklets from the Royal Arts and Crafts Museum 23). Wasmuth, Berlin 1900.
• Italian Thuerklopfer (= sample booklets from the Royal Arts and Crafts Museum 24). Wasmuth, Berlin 1900.
• Blacksmithing since the end of the Renaissance (= Monographs of Applied Arts 3). Seemann Nf., Leipzig 1902.
  • 2nd extended edition, edited by Alfred Rohde : Blacksmithing up to the end of the 18th century . Klinkhardt & Biermann, Leipzig 1922.
• in connection with Wilhelm Behncke , Max Creutz , Georg Swarzenski : European porcelain of the XVIII. Century. Catalog of the 15 February to 30 April 1904 in the atrium of the Kgl. Kunstgewerbe-Museum zu Berlin exhibited porcelains . Berlin 1904 ( digitized version ).
• Greek clay pots. With twenty-three illustrations based on originals from the antiquarian shop in Berlin . In: Velhagen & Klasings Monatshefte 19, 1904/05, Vol. 1, pp. 193-207.
• with Julius Lessing: The Pomeranian Art Cabinet . Wasmuth, Berlin 1905.
• Porcelain. Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin ( manuals of the Royal Museums in Berlin ). G. Reimer, Berlin 1907.
  • Revised by Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld . G. Reimer, Berlin 1914.

literature

• Wilhelm Behncke : Nekrolog Adolf Brüning . In: The Art Chronicle. Wochenschrift für Kunst und Kunstgewerbe NF 23, 1912, Sp. 264–265 ( digitized version ).
• Dr. Adolf Brüning † . In: Westphalia. Announcements from the Association for History and Archeology of Westphalia and the State Museum of the Province of Westphalia 4, 1912, p. 32.
• Ines Katenhusen : 150 years of the Lower Saxony State Museum in Hanover . In: Heide Grape-Albers (ed.): The Lower Saxony State Museum Hanover 2002. 150 years of the museum in Hanover, 100 years of the building at the Maschpark. Festschrift for the year of the double anniversary , Lower Saxony State Museum, Hanover 2002, ISBN 978-3-929444-29-2 and ISBN 3-929444-29-1 , pp. 18–94 especially pp. 69–70.
• Gisela Weiss: Creating meaning in the provinces. Westphalian museums in the German Empire . Schöningh, Paderborn 2005, ISBN 978-3-506-71781-8 , p. 428. 492.